AIR Part 1 - Let's Get This Started

Clipped from the SEAS AIR Specific Sailing Instructions:

Leg 1 – Marmion Island to Point Astley

Start Time:     Saturday June 21, 2014-0900

Start:              A line between the Committee Boat and the Marmion Island navigational mark.  If boats are late & no committee boat is present, the starting line will be an imaginary line that bears 230M to the Sheep Creek navigational mark. 

Distance:        35.0 nautical miles

Course:           After the start, proceed southeast through Stephens Passage.

Finish:            An imaginary line bearing 060M to, and within ½ mile of, the north tip of Pt. Astley.

Anchorage:    SE Winds – in a corner between the Wood Spit at the entrance to Endicott Arm & mainland. North Winds – south of Harbor Island. Both anchorages within 2.5 miles of finish.


Awesome sunset anchored off Point Astley in June


Glacier Iceburg – off Tracy Arm/Holkham Bay


Charging past grand Island, heading south!